ECHO OF OPAPA RAILWAY SMASH.
1 DRIVER WILL FACE MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. Napier, November 4. An echo of the Opapa railway smash on September 22, when three people were fatally hurt, will lie heard in the Magistrate’s Court at Napier to-morrow, when Frederick Lavin, driver of the engine concerned in the smash, will apepar to face a charge of manslaughter. Lavin lias only recently been discharged from the Napier Hospital, where he was recovering from burns and skull injuries. He is a married man, with ten children and lives in N apier. The trial is unlikely to proceed far to-morrow as a remand will be asked for, when the proceedings will be continued. However, sensational evidence may be expected. Allegations that one S. Marshall, an Onehunga engine driver on holiday, was in the cab of the wrecked engine, are understood to figure in the prosecutions case. Marshall was seriously injured in the crash and has since been in the Napier Hospital.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2958, 5 November 1925, Page 2
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160ECHO OF OPAPA RAILWAY SMASH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2958, 5 November 1925, Page 2
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